A unique account of the Japanese rock phenomenon from a legendary rock musician with an army of fans’The most obscenely enjoyable book of the year … enlightening, thrilling and occasionally hilarious … Cope is a supremely engaging writer whose aim is to entertain, educate and freak out’ Telegraph’This book’s astonishing blend of seriousness and hilariousness is testament to perhaps the most remarkable mind in rock today’ Word Julian Cope, eccentric and visionary rock musician, follows the runaway underground success of his book Krautrocksampler with Japrocksampler, a cult deconstruction of Japanese rock music, and reveals what really happened when East met West after World War Two.It explores the clash between traditional, conservative Japanese values and the wild rock ‘n’ roll renegades of the 1960s and 70s, and tells of the seminal artists in Japanese post-war culture, from itinerant art-house poets to violent refusenik rock groups with a penchant for plane hijacking.
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